Mehdi Sarkhosh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mehdi Sarkhosh is involved.
Articles
2022 The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses Pragmatics and Society 13:2, pp. 272–294 | Article
This study investigated the effect of the distance of the object of the compliment from the complimentee on compliment responses in Persian. A further aim of the study was to understand whether gender of the complimentee made a difference to the response pattern. To this end, 2652 Persian… read more
2017 Compliment response patterns between younger and older generations of Persian speakers Pragmatics and Society 8:3, pp. 421–447 | Article
The majority of studies on compliment response (CR) have investigated CR patterns and norms among different cultural groups and communities. The present study investigated the shifting of CR patterns across generations within the same speech community. To this end, 272 Persian speakers were… read more